GOSHEN—Orange County legislators unanimously voted on Feb. 4 to approve a social host law that would hold adults responsible for underage drinking on their property.
The law applies to anyone 18 years or older who knowingly allows the consumption of alcohol in their residence or yard, rented or owned, by those under the age of 21 and does not “take reasonable corrective action upon learning of the consumption of alcohol or alcoholic beverages by any minor on such premises.”
Those corrective actions include demanding the minor relinquish the alcohol and desist from drinking, and if that does not work, either reporting it to the authorities or “any other person having a greater degree of authority over the conduct of such minor.”
The law takes effect immediately.
